Pinterest settles gender discrimination lawsuit with former COO for $22.5 million
Pinterest today announced it has settled the gender discrimination lawsuit brought forth by former COO Francoise Brougher. In August, Brougher sued Pinterest, alleging gender discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination.
As part of the settlement, Pinterest will pay $20 million to Brougher
Gift Guide: Fun photography gear to brighten up the holidays
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5 questions every IT team should be able to answer
Now more than ever, IT teams play a vital role in keeping their businesses running smoothly and securely. With all of the assets and data that are now broadly distributed, a CEO depends on their IT team to ensure employees remain connected and productive and that sensitive data remains protected.
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Roblox buys digital avatar startup Loom.ai
Roblox announced today that it’s buying a digital avatar startup called Loom.ai. Purchasing a company that has focused singularly on creating more realistic human avatars is an interesting play for a gaming platform that has made such an impact by building experiences that tend to cast realis
Atlanta-based gaming controller peripheral seller KontrolFreek has been bought by SteelSeries
After nearly a decade selling gaming and console peripherals to gamers looking to spice up their systems, Atlanta-based KontrolFreek has been acquired by the international peripherals retailer SteelSeries.
Terms of the acquisition were undisclosed, but KontrolFreek has shipped more than 2 million u
MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media
More than 3.6 billion people use social media, and its runaway success has left the industry at a crossroads. There are now heated debates in Washington and Brussels over the future of antitrust regulation for this market, whether platform operators should filter certain content (and if so, which t
Indiegogo expands its Global Fast Track Program to Japan
Indiegogo plans to help more Japanese entrepreneurs run successful crowdfunding campaigns through a new expansion of its Global Fast Track Program.
Indiegogo first launched the program several years ago in China. The idea behind Global Fast Track is to provide an extra level of support to entrepre
Troy Carter and Suzy Ryoo’s music tech startup Q&A launches software group, Venice Innovation Labs
Q&A, a startup developing tech for the music industry co-founded by industry insiders Troy Carter (Lady Gaga’s first manager) and Suzy Ryoo (Carter’s longtime collaborator), has launched a new suite of software products through a division called Venice Innovation Labs.
The new tools
Google's Nest Hub Max smart screen can now make Zoom calls
The Nest Hub Max is getting Zoom. Google outlined the arrival of the popular teleconferencing platform in a blog post today, noting that it has started to roll out for users in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia.
The much-requested feature is arriving as an “early preview,” essentially meanin
Apple launches its new app privacy labels across all its App Stores
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the company announced it would soon require developers to disclose their app’s privacy practices to customers via new, glanceable summaries that appear on their apps’ product pages on the App Store. Today, these new app privacy l
Amazon launches a Live Translation feature for Echo devices
Amazon today announced a new Alexa feature, Live Translation, that will translate conversations between people who speak two different languages. The feature uses Amazon’s speech recognition technology and neural machine translation technology to work, and supports translating between English
Klima publicly launches its consumer-focused carbon offset app
Andreas Pursian, Markus Gilles and Jonas Brandau, the three co-founders of Klima, an app focused on helping consumers understand and offset their carbon emissions, first found entrepreneurial success at Hyper.
The mobile magazine publishing toolkit they developed was sold to Mic in 2017, but it was
Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro
Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc.
The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro, the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer ti
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